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#Healthwire: They are physically active


Back to the obesity rate: while 31% of the American population suffers from obesity, only 3% of the Amish people face this problem. Not owning cars, their level of physical activity is very high: men averaged 18,000 steps a day and women 14,000. to David R. Bassett, Ph.D., FACSM, a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville states that “The Amish were able to show us just how far we’ve fallen in the last 150 years or so in terms of the amount of physical activity we typically perform. Their lifestyle indicates that physical activity played a critical role in keeping our ancestors fit and healthy.”

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